The One is beyond words — yet holds and feeds every breath.
The Arc
Guru Arjan on the boundless One who still tends each life. Pauri 0 (opening): the Maker of all is the Cause of causes, indescribable, yet known through the teaching. Pauri 1 (Rahau): hold in mind the One who ends pain and freely gives the Name; everything rests in its house; it cherishes every being. Pauri 2: the saints’ company washes the mind and the heart-lotus blooms. Pauri 3: drop “mine” and “yours,” become the dust of all — the One is in every heart. Pauri 4: the Name is the greatest treasure; when it lives in the heart, earth and sky bloom. Pauri 5: contentment and deep listening bring an unshakable place to stand. Pauri 6: the One feeds every breath and homes the overlooked. Pauri 7: I cannot live an instant without the ever-present One. Pauri 8: holding the hem of the robe, we are carried across every fear, mind and body cooled by the food of the Name.
Key Vocabulary
karan kaaran samrath: the almighty Cause of causes
ayk akath: the One, beyond words
na-o niDh: the nine treasures (all abundance)
mayraa tayraa chhodee-ai: give up “mine and yours”
ghat ghat barahm pasaari-aa: the One spread through every heart
anchal laa-ay taraa-i-aa: carried across by holding the hem
Themes and Cross-Connections
The indescribable made knowable through the teaching; abundance and care; humility as becoming the dust of all; the Name as treasure and food; grace (nadar) that carries us across every fear.
For Raag Sorath
Sorath’s reassurance carries this hymn of a boundless One who still tends each breath.
Translation Notes
The Rahau is in Pauri 1. Per the wellbeing rules, tit din maree-ai jhoor (“that day one dies grieving,” Pauri 3) is rendered as a hollow day; so jee-arhaa jal jaa-o (“that soul shall burn,” Pauri 5) as an unquenched thirst; nit nit marday jhoor (“die crying daily,” Pauri 7) as a dry, restless life; nirgunee-aaray (“the worthless”) as “the ones the world overlooks”; kilbikh kaatanhaar as “the One who lifts away mistakes.” “Perfect destiny” is rendered as ripeness and readiness, not luck.
The One is beyond words — yet holds and feeds every breath.
The Arc
Guru Arjan on the boundless One who still tends each life. Pauri 0 (opening): the Maker of all is the Cause of causes, indescribable, yet known through the teaching. Pauri 1 (Rahau): hold in mind the One who ends pain and freely gives the Name; everything rests in its house; it cherishes every being. Pauri 2: the saints’ company washes the mind and the heart-lotus blooms. Pauri 3: drop “mine” and “yours,” become the dust of all — the One is in every heart. Pauri 4: the Name is the greatest treasure; when it lives in the heart, earth and sky bloom. Pauri 5: contentment and deep listening bring an unshakable place to stand. Pauri 6: the One feeds every breath and homes the overlooked. Pauri 7: I cannot live an instant without the ever-present One. Pauri 8: holding the hem of the robe, we are carried across every fear, mind and body cooled by the food of the Name.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The indescribable made knowable through the teaching; abundance and care; humility as becoming the dust of all; the Name as treasure and food; grace (nadar) that carries us across every fear.
For Raag Sorath
Sorath’s reassurance carries this hymn of a boundless One who still tends each breath.
Translation Notes
The Rahau is in Pauri 1. Per the wellbeing rules, tit din maree-ai jhoor (“that day one dies grieving,” Pauri 3) is rendered as a hollow day; so jee-arhaa jal jaa-o (“that soul shall burn,” Pauri 5) as an unquenched thirst; nit nit marday jhoor (“die crying daily,” Pauri 7) as a dry, restless life; nirgunee-aaray (“the worthless”) as “the ones the world overlooks”; kilbikh kaatanhaar as “the One who lifts away mistakes.” “Perfect destiny” is rendered as ripeness and readiness, not luck.